Seniors get big bucks through Google website ads–and it doesn’t affect their social security!!

Jerry Alonzy figured he’d be working into his 70s at least. Asan independent handyman at the mercy of weather patterns near Hartford,Conn., he’d always made a decent income that rarely grew.  Thenhe found Google, and his life changed. Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 ayear from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and hecouldn’t be more thrilled.  I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in,” he says. “What’s not to like?”  Inreturn for placing its ads on websites and blogs, Google pays Webpublishers every time one of its ads are clicked. Those clicks helpkeep Alonzy and his wife living comfortably and talking about moving toHawaii. “All I need is a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection,and I can live anywhere.”  The Internet may be a young person’smedium, but the retired and those nearing retirement such as Alonzyhave found that they can work the Web just as well. Sometimes, such”Gray Googlers” can live a richer, more financially rewarding life thanwhen they were supposedly working.  “Google isn’t just for kidsanymore,” says Google executive Kim Scott, who runs the company’sAdSense program, the ad platform that provides the income for Webpublishers such as Alonzy and others.

Source/more:  USA Today,  http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20071026/greygoogle.art.htm